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Geer Communications. David Geer - your on-time technology writer!

Welcome!

I come from one of the smaller, humbler communities in the country--Ashtabula County, Ohio. It has been said that development here is so slow that anything that takes hold in other parts of the country won't show up here for 20-years more.

There may be an exception to this precedent when it comes to wireless Internet. The county is surveying its constituents as to whether it should implement a free public Internet network county wide, which would obviously have to be implemented wirelessly to be practical.

I'm not saying we'll actually get it any time before 20-years from now, but the fact that they are even discussing it at a time when not exactly every city has such a thing is quite promising. This is especially forward-looking for an otherwise backward-ville mini-tropolis like ours, not to be overly disparaging.

I guess some good things are meant to happen everywhere, effecting everyone. The Internet is already clearly one such blessing. How else could a small town boy become a big time technology journalist without leaving the burg of his birth?

I assume some iteration of Wi-Fi, WiMAX or comparable Wireless MAN will be the protocol of choice. Please don't choose cellular.

Best Regards,
David Geer - your on time technology writer!
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